Blog for Fun vs Money vs Interest

There’s no definite answer for this, but one thing for sure, blogging is not an overnight event for anybody. It’s a long term commitment which goes on as long as needed, depending on your personal objectives. Looking at a more general set of objectives, yeah, I would say everybody pretty much wants their blog to be read by probably everybody out there. The more people involved the better it is.

Blogging for Fun
I think this is extremely healthy, the word “FUN” is pretty much what is needed to spice up anything you could possibly be doing. I bet nobody will be blogging if it’s boring or being forced to do it just for the sake of making money online. However, I’m very positive of believing that there is in fact, people who run blogs, whom are mainly motivated or driven by monetary gains. I wouldn’t blame them if that’s the case, as long as they’re contented and happy with what they’re doing, provided that they blog within “ethical” means (if you know what I mean).

Back to the topic.

When it’s fun, the chances of it to persevere for a long time is extremely high, and that is exactly what you want to do.  So if you’re planning to blog, and if it’s not fun for you, then don’t force yourself. It might end up being a heavy burden on your shoulders instead of something that you might want to spend time doing. Maybe try blogging on a trial basis, test it out, do it just out of curiosity and see how it goes, and if through this trial and error you start to develop some element of interest and fun, then by all means, continue on as you’re on the right track!

Blogging for Money
Well, if you’re blogging for the sole purpose of making money, then you should at least have the motivation to make a blog to work for you, even if you’re not taking it as something fun to do. However, chances are that bloggers who monetize their blogs are normally blog enthusiasts by nature (most if not all). There are still bloggers who are generally “sleeping bloggers” who generate blogs in the hundreds and having RSS feeds automatically posted in their blogs to create the impression that they’re in fact blogging.

Whichever way it is, blogging does in fact generates a great source of income for some or should I say for many, if you put a reasonable amount of effort in it. How these bloggers motivate themselves to persist in a constant blogging frequency probably come in various forms. Interest? Fun? Strictly materialistic? All of them?

Blogging for Interest
Now the word “Interest” interests me in a very very special way. It is simply because the fact that by simple means of interest, it could generate various unimaginable results. If you’re interested in something, it’s definitely fun and something that you look forward on doing on a constant basis. With this determination, and probably through an “unconscious reflex of action”, it could generate other form of sub-activities like creating something you like that generates money for you.

Or in some other cases, you might even go as far as blogging just for the sake of sharing your knowledge and information, in other words, helping others to know what you know, to learn what you know, etc. I might go as far as to say that interest is probably what you should find if you indeed decided to embark upon the world of blogging.

Take note that the word interest here refers to itself in the most general manner possible. It does not need to be pointing towards interest(s) towards a certain topic, but rather interest in blogging. If you like or want to blog, what subject you’re jumping into is secondary.

Blogging out of fun, interest and to make some extra dough.
Now, how if you already somewhere at this position where you have the interest, you enjoy blogging tremendously and you’re generating a nice amount of money through it? I would say bravo! Anybody probably would say, the only thing right now is persistence, determination and frequency. If you ask me, “interest” generates all that without you even knowing it, which is why interest is such an important value that you need to seek should you find yourself a blogger.

Now go and blog and have some fun!